We need to learn to be more independent as a nation and less dependent.

If you are reliant upon another country to fulfill the needs of your people, then that country controls you.

If however your country supplies the needs of your people, then your country is a truly free.

The biggest mistake a country can do is become a dependent.

Trade is good, it can strengthen nations. However trade is only good if it is for wants. When you are trading for wants rather than needs, you hand
over no control to the foreign nation. Instead you are each trading for mutual benefit with the knowledge that if one tries to screw the other the
people will only suffer loss of wants if trade ends, and that nation will suffer only profit loss.

Trade should exist to enrich a nation, a nation should never be dependent upon it to function. The globalists want us all dependent on each other.
They want things to be so entangled into knots there is no going back, so independence is impossible.

The very fact that people are scared what might happen to us if we stop trading with other nations simply demonstrates how far we've fallen. Are we
really this vulnerable, and if so, how do you all not see this as a problem we need to fix immediately?

As for the Trump hats, don't buy them if foreign made, Trump will understand. He told us not to. Then again, hats are wants anyway. Do any of us
actually need Trump hats to live?

Pity I'd have to travel several thousand kilometers just to try your version, but I'm game!

I can ship it to you via our amazing Amazon drones! It'll take some delivery guys job, but fck it.

It doesn't even require dry ice to pack it. We produce the finest food preservatives in the world. Our quality McDonald's brand beef has proven time
and time again that when combined with this special preservative blend our beef is unfazed by the socialist ravages of room temperature and lengthy
oxygen exposure. It's even approved by the USDA!

I try to buy American made as much as possible. But what we think of as made in America is not always made in America. They need to revise the laws
that govern this, if you stick a tag on something in America, it can be called assembled in America. If the parts are imported, and it is assembled
here, it is made in America.

I do think we can balance this with other nations. China can still build parts and we can refine them here and assemble things. I hate making the
Chinese live in polluted air and have their water polluted just so we can get things cheaper. They are overwhelmed and poisoning their people because
of us. We need to boost production of things we need here and also make things to last. If a fridge lasts you twice as long, it is worth paying one
and a half times more for it. Make things right and it benefits us and the environment. For those of you who believe paying more for a fridge gets
you more life out of it, think again, they have the same life expectancy most times, we are building junk and it is not the Chinese's fault, the
importers want sustained business. They order it with planned obsolescence so we can have more sales jobs. Our government also agrees with this
policy, we have become a consumer based economy, the government wants us to have to rebuy in a few years. That needs to change, we are destroying the
ecosystem.

Most people who try to buy American made mistakenly believe they are buying things made in America. We need to fix that problem. We live in a world
full of deception, the devil would have us believe a lie.

originally posted by: rickymouse
I try to buy American made as much as possible. But what we think of as made in America is not always made in America. They need to revise the laws
that govern this, if you stick a tag on something in America, it can be called assembled in America. If the parts are imported, and it is assembled
here, it is made in America.

We have extremely strict rules on the down here in Oz. For an item to qualify as "Australian Made" it HAS to be, I believe, 100% Aussie made or the
company using it can be fined and sued - and they do enforce it.

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